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KCUR Morning News 5-27-11

By Elana Gordon

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. –

 

  • The Kansas City city council has taken a step toward honoring its commitment to MAST ambulance workers who became city employees over a year ago. 

     

  • Kansas City sent so many rescue teams to Joplin this week, they were shuttling relief crews back and forth between the two cities, located more than a hundred fifty miles apart. The Kansas City council got a breakdown yesterday of just how this mutual aid worked. 

     

  • A Kansas City teen who was shot in the head just hours after graduating from Paseo Academy on Sunday has died. 

     

  • A new program in Kansas aims to increase the number of engineering graduates coming from the state's universities. 

     

  • The storms that swept through Kansas last month have set a single-month record for damages in the state. 

     

  • Former Missouri House speaker Rod Jetton has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of misdemeanor assault on a Sikeston woman during a sexual encounter a year and a half ago. 

     

  • The twisters that hit Southwest Missouri earlier this week have claimed thousands of turkeys. 

     

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